Photos of the Day: June 6

June 6, 2013 4:14 p.m. ET

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UP TO BAT: A Maasai player batted as the Maasai Warriors cricket team played a match against the Ambassadors in Kenya's Laikipia National Park on Thursday.
Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images…

SLINGING MUD: People threw mud at each other in a field in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, Wednesday, during Hucang Festical. The festival is a traditional celebration among local ethnic Tujia people, who believe the muddier a person is after the celebration, the better the harvest he or she will enjoy.
Reuters…

CAP AND UMBRELLA? A graduate raised his arms as he headed to his car after Countryside High School's graduation in Clearwater, Fla.
Jim Damaske/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press…

TIGHT FIT: A performer squeezed into a corner as part of the 'Bodies in Urban Spaces' project in Porto, Portugal, Thursday.
Jose Coelho/EPA…

GLASS CAGE: Defendants facing trial over clashes with the police during an anti-Putin protest last year gestured from inside a glass-walled cage before a court hearing in Moscow on Thursday.
Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters…

BACKING ASSAD: Civilians and soldiers loyal to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria stood near boxes containing aid from the Syrian army in Qusayr, after the army took control of the city from rebel fighters on Wednesday.
Mohamed Azakir/Reuters…

RESTITUTION: A veteran of Mau Mau, Kenya's independence movement, listened during a news conference in Nairobi Thursday. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the British government would pay around £20 million in compensation to more than 5,000 Kenyans who were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising from 1952-1960.
Dai Kurokawa/EPA…

CATCHING Z'S: An Indian bicycle rickshaw driver used a scarf to rest his head while sleeping on his rickshaw in New Delhi Thursday.
Kevin Frayer/Associated Press…

SPLISH SPLASH: Water splashed off Belmont Stakes hopeful Orb during his bath after morning workouts at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., Thursday. The 145th Belmont Stakes, the final leg of racing's Triple Crown, will be held at the park Saturday.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters…

HORSE FAIR: A boy washed his horse in the River Eden on Thursday in Appleby, England. He was with his family, part of the group known as 'travelers,' at the Appleby Horse Fair. The animals are washed and groomed before being ridden at high speed for potential buyers.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images…

RUBBLE: Firefighters viewed the aftermath of a building collapse Thursday in Philadelphia. On Wednesday, a building under demolition collapsed onto a neighboring thrift store, killing six people and injuring 14, including one who was pulled from the debris nearly 13 hours later.
Matt Rourke/Associated Press…

SOWING SEEDS: A farmer planted rice seedlings in a paddy field by hand in Iksan, South Korea, Tuesday.
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg News…

INUNDATED: People pumped water beside the flooded Danube River near Deggendorf, Germany, on Thursday. Germany continued frantic efforts to secure saturated river dikes with sandbags, bracing for the worst floods in over a decade.
Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images…

FIGHTING WORDS: Opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers scuffled on the podium during a session of the Supreme Council of Ukraine in Kiev Thursday.
Andrey Kravchenko/EPA…

READY FOR FIRING: A boy loaded pottery into an underground kiln in Gaza City Thursday.
Ahmed Deeb/NurPhoto/Zuma Press…